I’m exploring timelapses. Since I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m trying different intervals and different processings.
The capture was done every 1.5 sec.
So in 1 set, I want to process every image. In the next set, I want to process every second image. And in the last set, I want to process every 3rd image.
The processing will be different for each set + I also want to do them in B&W.
I do the export in jpegs with the attached arp of one set, then after the import in openshot, I delete them all. Then I do the next set…
There may be a better way, but if you’re on Linux (you didn’t mention your OS) you could script it. I’m currently on Windows so I can’t test this idea. But at first thought maybe something like this:
Put each set into its own subdirectory.
In the ART GUI process a representative image from each set and save those sidecars.
In the script loop through each subdirectory, processing them in art-cli, referencing the appropriate sidecar(s).
a. For set 1, process every image (possibly one call to art-cli on the directory itself?)
b. For set 2, increment a counter and process every 2nd image
c. For set 3, increment a counter and process every 3r image
You could feed the full output path to art-cli so they’d end up in same place. If you rename your raw files with a tag that identifies their set, you could call art-cli against each directory instead of individual files. That renaming process would be probably best done in a script (due to quantity) but at least it would simply the processing script.
That’s just a loose concept but it might work. Then again there may well be better ways.